WEBVTT MARIA: 5 INVESTIGATES MIKEBEAUDET, WHO PREVIOUSLYUNCOVERED SOME OF THE STARTLINGNUMBERS AND INFORMATION ON LEVELONE OFFENDERS.MIKE LEVEL ONE SEX OFFENDERS ARE: THE SECRET SEX OFFENDERS.YOU CAN'T FIND OUT ABOUT THEM.THEY'RE SUPPOSEDLY AT A LOW RISKTO RE-OFFEND BUT WHEN YOU HEARTHE CRIMES THEY'RE CONVICTED OFCOMMITTING AND JUST HOW MANY AREOUT THERE IT REALLY MAKES YOU, WONDER.LET'S TAKE A LOOK.65% OF LEVEL ONE SEX OFFENDERSHAVE BEEN CONVICTED OF SEXCRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN.WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CRIMES LIKECHILD RAPE, INDECENT ASSAULT ANDBATTERY ON A CHILD UNDER 14, ANDPOSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY.THERE ARE ABOUT 2700 PEOPLECLASSIFIED AS LEVEL ONE SEXOFFENDERS IN MASSACHUSETTS.AND THE MOST RECENT AVAILABLEDATA SHOWS MORE THAN 1700 OFTHEM WERE CONVICTED OF SEXCRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN.JUST A STAGGERING NUMBER WHENYOU THINK ABOUT IT.ESPECIALLY WHEN SOME LIKE TOSUGGEST THAT LEVEL ONE SEXOFFENDERS ARE PEOPLE WHO WERECAUGHT URINATING IN PUBLIC.THAT'S A MYTH.THERE'S NOT A SINGLE LEVEL ONESEX OFFENDER WHO WAS ARRESTEDFOR INDECENT EXPOSURE.BEN: IT SEEMS LIKE SOMETHING ISOUT OF WHACK HERE.HOW IS IT POSSIBLE PEOPLECONVICTED OF SUCH SERIOUS CRIMESAGAINST CHILDREN ARE CLASSIFIEDAS JUST LEVEL ONE, WHICH YOUWOULD THINK ARE MORE MINOROFFENSES?MIKE: EXACTLY.THERE ARE A LOT OF FACTORS THATTHE REGISTRY BOARD LOOKS AT,INCLUDING THE AMOUNT OF TIMEPASSED SINCE THE CONVICTIONBUREAU OF THESE PEOPLE WERECONVICTED IN THE 1960'S OR1970'S.BUT IF YOU ARE LIVING NEARTHERE, YOU WOULD WANT TO KNOW.MARIA: SHOULD THEY CHANGE THE